Spenserian Metre

(The). The metre in which Spenser's Faërie Queene is written. It is a stanza of nine iambic lines, all of ten syllables
except the last, which is an Alexandrine. Only three different rhymes
are admitted into a stanza, and these rhymes are thus disposed: Lines 1
and 3 rhyme; lines 2, 4, 5, 7 rhyme; lines 6, 8, 9 rhyme; thus:-